with Pia Lehmann Dip.Astrologer and Homeopath

Halloween derived from the word All Hallows Eve. The day when the veil is lifted between the living and the dead. The night of the soul.

The ancient Celtic civilisation gathered to celebrate the festival of death ‘Samhain‘ during the dark night of October 31st and at midnight, a time of death to the old year and birth to the new, it was the Celtic New Year. November is the month of the dead and Scorpio and ruling planet Mars/Pluto are all connected with death and rebirth.

Christians adopted the day and called it All Souls Day, the day of the dead.

Halloween is with Belthane (May 1) the most significant of the four quarterly fire festivals, taking place at the midpoint between the  equinox,September 21. and the winter solstice December 21.

Halloween/Samhain/All Soul’s Day/Day of the Dead are all connected with the Pleiades– the Seven Sisters of Judgement.

Australian tribes to this day dance in honour of the ‘Seven Sisters’. The months of May and November and their numerous festivals and celebrations are all associated with the Seven Sisters. Their rising in November marked the time for worship of deceased family and friends.

Watch the night sky in November, when the Pleiades are high in the night sky. Follow bright Orion constellation, and the Pleiades with sparkle like diamonds in the night sky.